BRITISH BIRDS, II3 
RED-LEGGED SANDPIPER. 
{JTringa Erythropus*) 
This bird meafures from the tip of the beak to 
the end of the tail, ten inches : the bill is an inch 
and three-eighths long, black at the tip, and reddilh 
towards the bafe : the crown of the head is fpotted 
with dark brown, difpofed in ftreaks, and edged 
with pale brown and grey : a darkifh patch covers 
the fpace between the corners of the mouth and the 
eyes : the chin is white ; the brow and cheeks pale 
brown, prettily freckled with fmall dark fpots : the 
hinder part of the neck is compofed of a mixture of 
pale brown, grey and afh, with a few indiflind 
dufky fpots; the fore part, and the breaft, are 
white, clouded with a dull cinnamon colour, and 
fparingly and irregularly marked with black fpots, 
-VoL. IL f P 
